throwdecro

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by throwdecro 5y ago
Sounds unsustainable. If enough people do that maybe we'll see some affordable housing soon!
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Watch out for HELOCs in what sense? Who would loan money to a homeowner with an underwater house, not matter how much they clamor?
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Having billions of dollars and continuing to work doesn't necessarily mean that you're not driven by money. It can mean that the drive for more money is insatiable. But I agree other factors are involved; if there are rivals left
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by throwdecro 5y ago
It's not hidden. It's just not connected to an internet-style social network. Interest can still spread through word-of-mouth, even if the platform doesn't provide any tools for audience measurement and management. It&#x27
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> ...is tweeting into the void kinda sad? No, I think it's brilliant. I think we'd see more interesting writing on the internet if it didn't always start with the goal of acquiring and maintaining an audience.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
It sounds like you're basically using Twitter as something like email, which never occurred to me (my friends and I do "group comms" via actual email). Do other people use Twitter in this way? Maybe you are the exception :)
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> The wage clearly has to be somewhere between the minimum wage in the country and 100% of the value (okay, perceived value) that the worker generates for the employer. As long as companies can keep finding investors to bankroll them, wo
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Looking at the top 10 richest people [0], most of them weren't born into anything close to the level of wealth they have now. None of them were poor, so "essentially anyone can become successful" is almost certainly an overs
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I chose random blog post on Medium and tried to copy a sentence out of it. It offers to let me "create an account to highlight a passage", or tweet it out via Twitter, but I can't just copy it and paste it into my notes else
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by throwdecro 5y ago
It's a city, not a mall. If you want to keep alcoholics away from your beverage, it would make sense to not have it out by the sidewalk when they stroll by. Otherwise, that's life in the (sorta) big city.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> I struggle to understand what's so interesting in X(AWS/Azure/GCP/Alibaba/SAP/Oracle...) Cloud... We're still afraid of the cloud spending all of our money.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> 'leadership will have no limits on their authority... none whatsoever' For some reason I envy whoever got to hear that sentence in real life. It makes it perfectly clear that you're dealing with assclowns.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
As another commenter pointed out, it looks like it's against German law to insult anyone, not just politicians. If only politicians were protected from insult, I don't think that would be compatible with democracy at all.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
The greater system Bitcoin would represent, assuming wide future adoption, would be a plutocracy, which I stated in the earlier post. If early adopters maintain the anything close proportion of BTC they currently hold, they'd form a s
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by throwdecro 5y ago
In a hard money/cryptocurrency environment, the BTC plutocrats would decide when to go to war, and with whom, since no lending or spending would be possible without their assent. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing depends
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I find that I'm happiest when there are things I need to do, but there is little to no cost to deferring them and doing something else. In a situation like that you're always occupied, doing the most enjoyable thing at the moment
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by throwdecro 5y ago
And yet here we are reading their best jokes, many centuries later. > One woman, observing her son coming towards her, inquired, "How fares our country?" And when he said, "All have perished," she took up a tile and,
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> I'd wager most people read it correctly. That's unlikely. Before cryptocurrencies, "crypto" generally meant cryptography. The term "crypto" now refers to cryptocurrencies almost 100% of the time.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
"Hustle culture" is about a social norm, not how any one person spends their time. The toxicity comes from people expecting a high level of dedication from each other instead of simply themselves. If the author is happy with what
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> How is that able to relate to any kind of normal app? There's too much competition involved in writing normal apps, which often attract significant investment that bootstrapped startups struggle to compete with. It's interest
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I didn't mean one tourist buying everything (which would be problematic no matter what the currency was), I meant in the aggregate. I've added an edit to my comment to clarify.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
I'm envisioning a lot of dirty looks from paper cash-preferring shopkeepers to crypto tourists when the tourists buy up all shop's inventory and leave the shopkeeper with just a few numbers in some app. EDIT: To be clear, I mean
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> Note that even if the Rhinoceros votes went for the peoples party the same thing would have happened... Which is probably for the best. If this type of trickery had made a meaningful difference, the people fooled by the trick would ha
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> Why are managers paid more than us, when we clearly do the harder work? If you're asking the question, you're not treating your manager badly enough.
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by throwdecro 5y ago
How can it be settled when no one and nothing can show it's mental state to others?
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by throwdecro 5y ago
NOTE: I am not a physicist. > They did calculations showing it was impossible Doesn't mean they couldn't have been surprised by something their calculations didn't take into account. The yield for the Castle Bravo test i
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by throwdecro 5y ago
It's true that it's impossible for an outside observer to tell whether a claim to consciousness, by a faithful simulation of a human mind, is genuine. That may mean that the question cannot be settled. It doesn't actually s
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> Computers have mental activities too, simple ones That's begging the question as to whether awareness arises out of the physical world. You're assuming mental activities arise out of computations occurring in the physical wo
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by throwdecro 5y ago
> To be clear, if we accept the existence of a non-physical mental realm, we have the monstrous problem of explaining how these two interact, as there are numerous correlations between the two. I suspect a lot of the most interesting inv
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by throwdecro 5y ago
Why would the "Paypal Mafia" make you think it is risky to attack successful people and companies? Ideally it wouldn't be risky at all; in some circumstances it can be risky; but I don't see anything about the "Payp

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